SUSE CVE-2013-2852

Format string vulnerability in the b43requestfirmware function in drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c in the Broadcom B43 wireless driver in the Linux kernel through 3.9.4 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging root access and including format string specifiers in an fwpostfix modprobe...

USN-1930-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's fanotify interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2013-2148 Kees Cook discovered a format string vulnerability in the Broadcom B43 wireless driver for the Linux kernel. A local...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1915-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1917-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu Update for linux-ti-omap4 USN-1920-1

Check for the Version of linux-ti-omap4 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN19201.nasl 8456 2018-01-18 06:58:40Z teissa $ Ubuntu Update for linux-ti-omap4 USN-1920-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program i...

USN-1920-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability

Kees Cook discovered a format string vulnerability in the Broadcom B43 wireless driver for the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerability (USN-1914-1)

Kees Cook discovered a format string vulnerability in the Broadcom B43 wireless driver for the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security...

Updated kernel-linus package fixes multiple security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides the extended stable 3.8.13.4 kernel and fixes the follwing security issues: The pcibackenablemsi function in the PCI backend driver drivers/xen/pciback/confspacecapabilitymsi.c in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device acces...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update provides the extended stable 3.8.13.4 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The pcibackenablemsi function in the PCI backend driver drivers/xen/pciback/confspacecapabilitymsi.c in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device access...

Updated kernel-vserver package fixes security issues

This kernel-vserver update provides the upstream 3.4.52 kernel and fixes the follwing security issues: The pcibackenablemsi function in the PCI backend driver drivers/xen/pciback/confspacecapabilitymsi.c in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device access to...

Updated kernel-linus package fixes security issues

This kernel update provides the upstream 3.4.52 kernel and fixes the follwing security issues: The pcibackenablemsi function in the PCI backend driver drivers/xen/pciback/confspacecapabilitymsi.c in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device access to cause a...

[ MDVSA-2013:194 ] kernel

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:194 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : kernel Date : July 11, 2013 Affected: Business Server 1.0 Problem Description: Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linux...

Updated kernel packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides the upstream 3.4.52 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The pcibackenablemsi function in the PCI backend driver drivers/xen/pciback/confspacecapabilitymsi.c in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device access to cause a...

Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 USN-1900-1

Check for the Version of linux-ec2 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN19001.nasl 8494 2018-01-23 06:57:55Z teissa $ Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 USN-1900-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1900-1)

Dmitry Monakhov reported a race condition flaw the Linux ext4 filesystem that can expose stale data. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause an information leak. CVE-2012-4508 An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's tkill and tgkill system calls when used from compa...

USN-1899-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Dmitry Monakhov reported a race condition flaw the Linux ext4 filesystem that can expose stale data. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause an information leak. CVE-2012-4508 Dave Jones discovered that the Linux kernel's socket subsystem does not correctly ensure the keepalive acti...

CVE-2013-2852

Format string vulnerability in the b43requestfirmware function in drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c in the Broadcom B43 wireless driver in the Linux kernel through 3.9.4 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging root access and including format string specifiers in an fwpostfix modprobe...

Linux Kernel 3.3.5 - 'b43' Wireless Driver Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60410/info Linux kernel is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit the issue to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges or to crash the kernel, effectively denying service to legitimate users. rmmod b43...